CALL FOR PAPERS MIDWEST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION/ MIDWEST AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE October 30-November 1, 2009 Book Cadillac Westin Hotel Detroit, Michigan FILM/LITERATURE ADAPTATION Proposals for either papers or panels are especially welcome in the area of recent conceptualizations of adaptation. The recent work of Robert Stam, Linda Hutcheon, Kamilla Elliot, and others has dramatically urged a rethinking of the nature of adaptation, its inevitability in culture, the multiplicity of its productions, its range of social and formal implications, as well as the variety of texts engaged by its transactions. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to): New models of adaptation/appropriation/imitation/translation Adapting texts and intertexts Canonicity and adaptation Novel and short story to film Drama to film Film to film adaptations Adaptations based on television Biography and autobiography adaptations Adaptations of history Adaptation superstars (Jane Austen, Frank Miller…) Fellowship of the Ring adaptations Graphic novels/comics/video games to film Intermedia adaptations Inquiries regarding this area and/or abstracts of 250 words may be sent to Bob Self at the email or physical address below. Information about the conference is available at http://www.mpcaaca.org/ Submission deadline is April 30, 2009 Robert Self Department of English Northern Illinois University DeKalb IL 60115 815-753-1797 <[log in to unmask]> ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org